Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKWhat good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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